Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Durang/Durang Five One-Act Plays by Christopher Durang

Performance Dates & Tickets

About the Play

No one in the American theater has a surer ear for, or can take more accurate aim at, the foibles of his fellow men, and particularly his fellow writers, than Christopher Durang.

Directed by Dan Sekanic

CVLT's River Street Playhouse, the small black-box style theater located just across the parking lot from the main building, presents an evening of five absurdly silly one-act plays by the award-winning author Christopher Durang.

Christopher Durang's plays, which include Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Baby with the Bathwater, Laughing Wild, A History of the American Film, Betty’s Summer Vacation, and Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge have been produced on and off-Broadway, around the country and abroad. He claims to have written 1,455 one-act plays (or perhaps 40), including The Actor’s Nightmare, Naomi in the Living Room, and ‘dentity Crisis. Mr. Durang is also an actor and singer, who has appeared on stage and film with the likes of Julie Andrews and Sigourney Weaver.

Durang/Durang at CVLT will feature:

• "Mrs. Sorken" - An introductory, welcoming speech to the audience in which the over-articulate, somewhat dotty Mrs. Sorken explains her likes and dislikes about theatre, her views on the meaning of life, and what the audience can expect to see this evening.
• "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" - a no holds barred parody of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie".
• "Wanda's Visit" - A married couple who are a bit restless in their relationship, have their lives thrown into disarray by the visit of Wanda, a flirtatious, possibly felonious ex-girlfriend of the husband.
• "Nina in the Morning" - Nina is a preposterously narcissistic wealthy woman, attended by her butler, a silent maid, and her three children. The interwoven time-frame juxtaposes scenes from Ninas past misbehaviors with the present morning when she can't seem to get the butler to bring her a cruller.
• "Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room" - Chris, a playwright, is having touble coming up with his next project...will it end up being the hot shot movie exec's idea? "It's about a Catholic priest and a rabbi who fall in love, and then, O. Henry-style, each has a sex change without telling the other one."